Button.



No. 694,636. Patented Mar. 4, I902. J. GUMP.

BUTTON.

(Application filed Mar. 28 1901.) (No Model.)

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JACOB GUMP, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,636, dated'March 4, 1902. Application filed March 28, 1901 fierial No. 53,221. (No model.)

. To all whom it ntcty concern: I Be it known that I, JACOB GUMP, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of'529 West Baltimore street, city of Bal timore, State of Maryland, have invented oer-I tons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buttons, and especially to cloth-covered collet-buttons having a cloth fastening-piece by means of which they are sewed to a garment.

The object of the invention is to provide such buttons with a metallic strengtheningpiece for the cloth fastening-piece, preventing said cloth from being pulled out or cut to pieces by the strain on the thread. I also aim to reduce the quantity of material in the cloth fastening-piece and to construct the button in such a way that it can rotate freely in order to obviate the twisting strain on the fastening-threads and therubbing and fraying of the edge of the button.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diametrical sectional view'of a button embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same.

The button may be composed of the usual metallic top plate A, covered Wit-h cloth B and crimped upon the slight1y-flared flange of the annular collet C. The interior of the button may contain the usual filling-piece D, of pasteboard or the like.

The cloth fastening-piece E is usually made large enough to be clamped between the edge of the filling-piece and the flange of the col let in order to prevent it from pulling out; but I save considerable material by making it much smaller, and I preventit from pulling out by reinforcing it with a metallic shank F, consisting of a small disk whose edge lies between the collet and the fillingpiece and which has a cupped center, which projects through the hole in the center of the collet.

The center of the cloth fastening-piece is also cupped, as usual, to protrude through said hole,lyingj ust inside the metallic shank. Several holes f are made in, the cupped portion of the metallic shank to permit a needle to be passed through it and the cloth fasteningpiece when the button is sewed to a garment.

It will be observed that'the shank and the cloth are free to rotate between the fillingpiece and the collet, so that when the button is'inserted into a buttonhole it will not twist off the shank, but will turn thereon, and thus reduce to a minimum the 'rubbing'and fraying of the edges of the cloth cover B. Moreover, the stiff cupped metallic'shank keeps the buttonat a given distance from the garment, allowing sufficient room between them for that portion containing the buttonhole, no matter how tightly the button is sewed on.

, A most important advantage of my improvement is that the metallic shank prevents the thread from tearing out the cloth fasteningpiece, so that even if the thread breaks'and;

the button comes off it can always be sewed on again. On the other hand, the cloth fastening-piece prevents the edges of the holes f from cutting the thread, so that my button .Will stay on longer than one having a plain small cupped and perforated metallic shank protruding through the hole in said collet,

and a small cupped cloth fastening-piece inside of said shank, the cup of said fasteningpiece being similar to the cup of said shank,

and said fastening-piece forming a lining for said shank.

2. In a button,the combination with an annular collet, of a cupped and perforated metallic shank rotatable in the hole in said col- Signed by me at Baltimore, Maryland, this. 27th day of March, 1901.

JAcoB GUMP.

WVitnesses E OHARLEs H. MILLIKIN,

E. R. BERKELEY. 

